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Blackberry Network is Down
Brian writes "According to CNET and others, "A system failure at Research In Motion has affected BlackBerry users in the Western Hemisphere, a news channel reported on its Web site late on Tuesday. The infrastructure failed on Tuesday night, and e-mails were not being delivered to the handheld devices.""
Common, this was an easy one!
"Blackberry Blackout"
MABASPLOOM!
My thumbs are twitching!
Now I have to go in to work and explain that I dont control the Blackberry network........Cmon RIM!!
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
Can't be true... I would have got an email telling me if it was......
Cruise TT
I can predict at least two possible reactions from end-users.
First: jumping out of a building due to the terror and pain of sudden withdrawal. It happens to heroin addicts, it can happen here too, folks.
Second: people wandering the streets of major cities bright-eyed and staring in open wonder, as though they were waking up from a long dream. Joining hand in hand, they frolic in the parks or whatever greenspace they can find chanting "Free at Last, Free at Last..." The clouds part, and an auspicious rainbow graces the sky. Oh, and I suppose there are other reactions: incoherent rage at no one in particular (ever chat with a cold-turkey smoking quitter?), unjustified rage at corporate IT for letting this happen, curling up in a fetal position in the corner, uncontrollable thumb twitching (almost like phantom limb pain).
Then there's another reaction: simply shrugging and going back to computer-based email and cellphones.
Blackberry down, we got a blackberry down.
Leave No Email Behind
Well, this is certainly unusual. Slashdot saving a marriage......
Now what's a busy executive supposed to do when you're giving them a presentation? Actually pay attention to you?
You must be new here. (To life that is...)
You will realize the fallacy of your statement soon after your 50th birthday. Nature isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Those bouncy little disks in your back will start taking on the appearance and flexibility of cardboard. Your prostate (assuming you are male) will enlarge and back your bladder up into your nostrils. Your uterus (assuming your female) will simultaneously enlarge, flop over and quit working. Your eyes will go bad. Various other bits will quit working while parts of your body that you didn't know existed will start creating problems.
While modern medicine can approach some of the problems, any repairs will be more like soldering a few new capacitors on to a Pentium II motherboard (and charging for an eight way Opteron system) than anything really useful. Oh, and you want a warranty?
Death and taxes to you sir!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
RIM lost their primary NOC last night. Your BES transmits data to their NOC including mailflow routing and SRP information. This issue affects the Americas entirely and is currently fixed for Sprint and Nextel. GPRS/EEDGE providers are still unable to contact back to RIM at the present time.
I'll LOL if RIM is FOOBAR and can't GBTW but my PHB won't ROFL that the BOFH at RIM is AFK. LBC, 213.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
You mean... just ... maybe ... a few million managers could die? May I get my hopes up?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.